The LaTeX beamer class is the new latex standard to produce slides:

	http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
It produces custom sized pages and includes several layout/color themes.

I added an Inkscape template document with the correct page dimensions
as well as guides to delimit the text area within the slide for several
themes, in order to ease the production of illustrations at correct sizes
(scalability is great but having the correct size from the start limits
issues with stoke width and font sizes for example).

I also constructed a color palette which includes colors suitable for each
theme of the standard beamer package. I am no color-expert/artist so I
don't really know about the rules in this delicate subject. What I did is
that for each theme I extracted the base colors of the slides with a color
picker tool; I named them according to their use in the slide (eg.
"{themeName} header", "{themeName} background"); when I found this base
color set to be a bit poor, I added new colors derived from the original
ones by mixing them with white, black, with other colors in the theme or by
using automatic color schemes generators; I named these new colors
"{themeName} added {colorName}". hopefully this should have led me to avoid
bad color choices.

diff --git a/share/palettes/LaTeX-Beamer.gpl b/share/palettes/LaTeX-Beamer.gpl
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+GIMP Palette
+Name: LaTeX Beamer
+Columns: 0
+#
+ 24  28  87    default outer 1
+ 37  43 130    default outer 2
+ 49  57 174    default outer 3
+233 233 242    default block
+141 145 208    default added blue
+ 49  57 174    default block header
+245 231 231    default alert block
+205 130 130    default added red
+165  29  30    default alert block header
+232 238 230    default example block
+138 166 120    default added green
+ 43  93  10    default example block header
+228 228 228    default covered text
+224 225 243    default covered bullet
+255 255 255    default background
+  0   0   0    default text
+194 195 230    default light outer 1
+204 205 234    default light outer 2
+214 215 239    default light outer 3
+235 235 246    default light block
+214 215 239    default light block header
+102 106 194    default light block header text
+249 231 231    default light alert block
+244 206 206    default light alert block header
+221  42  43    default light alert block header text
+233 241 230    default light example block
+210 229 204    default light example block header
+ 62 130  19    default light example block header text
+228 228 228    default light covered text
+224 225 243    default light covered bullet
+255 255 255    default light background
+  0   0   0    default light text
+ 61  73 112    beetle outer 1
+ 64  77 119    beetle outer 2
+ 67  81 125    beetle outer 3
+ 85 103 158    beetle added blue
+115 130 179    beetle added blue
+180 185 203    beetle added blue
+205 130 130    beetle added red
+188  33  34    beetle alert block header text
+138 166 120    beetle added green
+ 58 124  14    beetle example block header text
+255 255 255    beetle header text
+204 204 204    beetle added grey
+168 168 168    beetle covered bullet
+153 153 153    beetle background
+130 130 130    beetle covered text
+ 77  77  77    beetle added grey
+  0   0   0    beetle text
+  0   8  55    albatross outer 1
+  0  10  75    albatross outer 2
+  0  13  93    albatross outer 3
+  0  17 124    albatross background
+  0  15 112    albatross block
+  0  13  93    albatross block header
+108 112 184    albatross header text
+190 193 252    albatross bullet
+ 27  36 143    albatross covered bullet
+ 62  60  95    albatross covered text
+223 143 135    albatross added red
+202  68  54    albatross alert block header text
+157 222 103    albatross added green
+105 182  40    albatross example block header text
+234 227 133    albatross text
+218 207  47    albatross added yellow
+255 255 255    albatross added white
+  0   0   0    fly text
+ 64  64  64    fly added grey
+128 128 128    fly outer
+153 153 153    fly background
+204 204 204    fly added grey
+255 255 255    fly header text
+168 168 168    fly covered bullet
+130 130 130    fly covered text
+221 144 144    fly added red
+188  33  34    fly alert block header text
+156 189 134    fly added green
+ 58 124  14    fly example block header text
+152 156 215    fly added blue
+ 49  57 174    fly added default blue
+179 179 179    seagull outer 1
+191 191 191    seagull outer 2
+204 204 204    seagull outer 3
+230 230 230    seagull block
+217 217 217    seagull added grey
+204 204 204    seagull block header
+220 220 220    seagull covered text
+247 247 247    seagull covered bullet
+255 255 255    seagull background
+  0   0   0    seagull text
+141  25  25    beaver outer frame
+173  95  95    beaver added red
+204 166 166    beaver added red
+217 217 217    beaver outer 1
+236 236 236    beaver outer 2
+242 242 242    beaver outer 3
+143 147 205    beaver added blue
+ 49  57 174    beaver block header text
+147 180 125    beaver added green
+ 58 124  14    beaver example block header text
+200 138 138    beaver added red
+164  40  40    beaver alert block header text
+228 228 228    beaver covered text
+224 225 243    beaver covered bullet
+255 255 255    beaver background
+  0   0   0    beaver text
+240 193  57    crane outer 1
+243 200  74    crane outer 2
+244 206  94    crane outer 3
+251 237 196    crane block
+245 212 121    crane added orange
+239 187  46    crane block header
+245 231 231    crane alert block
+205 130 130    crane added red
+165  29  30    crane alert block header
+232 238 230    crane example block
+138 166 120    crane added green
+ 43  93  10    crane example block header
+228 228 228    crane covered text
+224 225 243    crane covered bullet
+  0  12  74    crane bullet
+255 255 255    crane background
+  0   0   0    crane text
+236 161  79    wolverine outer 1
+242 188  46    wolverine outer 2
+248 219  48    wolverine outer 3
+250 227  48    wolverine outer 4
+253 241 152    wolverine added yellow
+140 147 211    wolverine added blue
+ 25  39 166    wolverine header text
+163 197 146    wolverine added green
+ 72 139  36    wolverine example block title
+228 228 228    wolverine covered text
+224 225 243    wolverine covered bullet
+255 255 255    wolverine background
+  0   0   0    wolverine text

diff --git a/share/templates/LaTeX_Beamer.svg b/share/templates/LaTeX_Beamer.svg
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
+<svg
+   xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
+   xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
+   xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
+   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
+   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
+   xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
+   xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
+   width="453.5433"
+   height="340.15747"
+   id="svg2"
+   sodipodi:version="0.32"
+   inkscape:version="0.44.1"
+   sodipodi:docname="beamer.svg"
+   version="1.0">
+  <defs
+     id="defs4" />
+  <sodipodi:namedview
+     id="base"
+     pagecolor="#ffffff"
+     bordercolor="#666666"
+     borderopacity="1.0"
+     gridtolerance="10000"
+     guidetolerance="8.8"
+     objecttolerance="10"
+     inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
+     inkscape:pageshadow="2"
+     inkscape:zoom="1.540463"
+     inkscape:cx="226.77165"
+     inkscape:cy="170.07874"
+     inkscape:document-units="mm"
+     inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
+     inkscape:window-width="988"
+     inkscape:window-height="724"
+     inkscape:window-x="33"
+     inkscape:window-y="22"
+     width="12.8cm"
+     height="9.6cm"
+     units="cm"
+     showgrid="true"
+     gridspacingx="2mm"
+     gridspacingy="2mm"
+     grid_units="mm"
+     gridempspacing="5"
+     inkscape:object-paths="false"
+     inkscape:grid-points="true"
+     inkscape:grid-bbox="true"
+     inkscape:guide-points="true"
+     showguides="true"
+     inkscape:guide-bbox="true">
+    <sodipodi:guide
+       orientation="vertical"
+       position="56.476527"
+       id="guide3573" />
+    <sodipodi:guide
+       orientation="horizontal"
+       position="11.035643"
+       id="guide3579" />
+    <sodipodi:guide
+       orientation="horizontal"
+       position="24.018753"
+       id="guide3886" />
+    <sodipodi:guide
+       orientation="horizontal"
+       position="285.62841"
+       id="guide3988" />
+    <sodipodi:guide
+       orientation="horizontal"
+       position="303.15561"
+       id="guide4081" />
+  </sodipodi:namedview>
+  <metadata
+     id="metadata7">
+    <rdf:RDF>
+      <cc:Work
+         rdf:about="">
+        <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
+        <dc:type
+           rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
+      </cc:Work>
+    </rdf:RDF>
+  </metadata>
+  <g
+     inkscape:label="Layer 1"
+     inkscape:groupmode="layer"
+     id="layer1"
+     transform="translate(4.149475e-6,-698.0315)" />
+</svg>